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English noun: spruce bark beetle

1. spruce bark beetle (animal) small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree


SamplesThe spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests.


SynonymsDendroctonus rufipennis


Broader (hypernym)bark beetle


Member meronymDendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus









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